Series 4

Jan 1, 1972

0h 7m

★ 0.0

Overview

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Series 4 Trailers

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Cast

(voice)

Carole Laure

(voice)

Jacques Thisdale

(voice)

Lucile Vernet

The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature.

3.0

Dark Mixer

Jul 15, 2014

Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)

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bubble skin

Aug 6, 2025

A disorienting realm where reality itself flickers and fragments. Through a visceral exploration of digital distortion and failing verification processes, this challenges your perception and dares you to question what lies beneath the surface. Are we truly awake to the genocides and wars raging beyond our privileged bubbles, or are we content to remain ensnared by manipulated realities? This is a personal call to shatter the illusions, to seek deeper truths, and to recognize the profound fortune of our existence amidst global turmoil.

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Metamorphoses I

Nov 2, 1978

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

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By Winds and Tides

Aug 1, 2022

Exploring the conscious, the unconscious and the self, By Winds and Tides takes a deep experimental dive into the birth of an idea—how it takes shape, how it is released. An allegorical quest, the film combines images and words into a singular sigh.

6.4

Elmer's Candid Camera

Mar 2, 1940

Elmer takes up wildlife photography but finds his subject, a rabbit, much too rascally.

0.0

Perf Dance

Aug 19, 2022

A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.

6.5

Angel

Jan 1, 1966

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

0.0

Drizzle in Johnson

Sep 13, 2023

A scientist obsessively seeking the answers of the universe is thrust into a mind-bending odyssey of grotesqueries and genitalia.

8.0

Four Faces of the Moon

Oct 20, 2016

Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story — we witness the impact and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land policies.

0.0

Dissipative Fantasies

Jan 1, 1986

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

6.3

Me + Her

Jan 16, 2014

Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.

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.wszechświat

Oct 26, 2022

No overview available.

0.0

THE BLUEPRINTS

Jun 13, 2025

A rat goes out to look for something in a tower.

0.0

Dieci Cadute

Jan 1, 2012

An underground fight is taking place in a painter's studio between the artist and the ten tyrants.

0.0

Corpus Nobody

Jan 1, 2010

Photographic animation and digital painting. This work presents itself as a study of the possibilities for comparison between human machines, exploring the different solutions offered by different aptitudes or physical characteristics within the human landscape

10.0

HYPERSONIC Music Club

Aug 1, 2023

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

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Corner

Jun 22, 2022

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid and successively repetitive montage cuts between the image of the street and the corners of the video frame itself produce new textures and shapes in our brain, whilst the sound follows the same rhythmic movements by emphasizing different “corners” (frequencies) from the bird’s singing. The energetic potency stemming from the junction of these elements creates a new image that is almost tactitle, maleable and rippling. The result is a somewhat humorous operation of the portuguese word "corner" throughout the different stages of making the piece, finally unveiling a piercing physical and kinetic experience for all the corners of our eyes and ears.

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A Paw Over Dark

May 25, 2023

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.

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